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GIMLET MOPS UP
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330722
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1947. Good condition.

Cream cloth, brown titles and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis plus green and black full-page illustrations. 185 pages. 7.25 x 4.75". Spine and corners bumped. Covers grubby, spine browned. Endpapers lightly browned. Some page corner tips creased and some light foxing to textblock.

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BIGGLES AND THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330720
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biggles & Co. are on a trail of a yacht that sailed away and never came back. Blue boards, black titles. Not illustrated. Spine bumped. Slight loss to lower edges of free-endpapers. Light foxing to endpapers and textblock. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, grubby to rear panel and has a small brown mark to top edge of front panel.

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BIGGLES TAKES IT ROUGH
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330719
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. Front endpapers are maps of the island of Tola. No other illustrations despite accreditation to Leslie Stead. 184 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, slightly grubby to rear panel.

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BIGGLES AND THE LOST SOVEREIGNS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330717
Published by The Children's Book Club. Good condition.

Green boards, black title to spine. Colour frontis. 184 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers lightlyk marked and spine sunned. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Half-title/frontis is part detached at lower 2". Some foxing else contents clean.

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BIGGLES' SECOND CASE
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330686
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1951. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles and vignette to front. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. The case of the pirate U-Boat. Spine slightly bumped, light mark to centre of spine. Front free-endpaper has been neatly removed. Damage (and slight loss) to lower margins of pages 97 to 126. No loss of text. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and slightly chipped with old tape repairs on verso (old glue marks showing on front flap), rear panel is slightly grubby.

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BIGGLES FOLLOWS ON
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330620
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles and vignette. 4 double-sided b/w plates. 158 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Some slight browning to cover edges. Name and address written in ink to front pastedown. '6' written in a small circle to both front pastedown and rear free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock and endpapers. Dustwrapper is edge worn, grubby to rear panel, a few small tape repairs to verso and name and address written on verso of wrapper.

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BIGGLES TAKES A HOLIDAY
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330619
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1950. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Blue boards, red titles and panther vignette. 8 full-page illustrations. 190 pages. Second impression. Spine and corners bumped. Front free-endpaper removed, front joint cracked. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is well worn, torn and chipped, tape repairs on verso and faded to spine. Rear panel is a bit grubby.

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BIGGLES IN THE ORIENT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330459
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 2nd 1948. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles to front and spine. Colour frontis plus b/w illustrations. 179 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Light mark to centre of spine. Pale browning to rear free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with some loss, loss to centre of spine, tape repairs on verso at folds.

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BIGGLES DEFIES THE SWASTIKA
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Howard Leigh; Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1330054
Published by Oxford University Press. 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Light brown cloth with dark brown titles and vignette of plane flying over Oslo. Colour frontis plus 6 b/w plates. 249 pages plus booklist to rear. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Fading to lower 0.5" of spine. Erased pencil writing to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper has loss to lower 1" of rear panel and spine and is edge rubbed.

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BIGGLES AND THE PENITENT THIEF
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330052
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. 151 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Large initials (S.B.) in black felt-tip pen to front free-endpaper. Original printed price has been crossed out to front flap of wrapper. Rear panel of wrapper is foxed. Wrapper edges rubbed.

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BIGGLES IN THE GOBI
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330049
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards. Black ram's horns vignette to front. 6 colour plates. Second impression. Endpapers lightly browned, very faint tape mark to rear free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Light creases to preliminary pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge rubbed.

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BIGGLES FOLLOWS ON
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330010
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles and vignette. 4 double-sided b/w plates. 158 pages. Spine slightly bumped and faded. Light foxing to textblock, top edge of textblock dust marked. Wrapper is edge worn and creased with a few small chips.

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